[syslinux] Chain loading hard disk with gPXELinux

H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-12T15:59:56Z

Tim Franssen wrote:
>
> We use gPXELinux to boot over a web service and it's all working
> marvellously, except for the localboot bug. Until now we've used
chain.c32
> to solve this problem, however we're running into some problems with
some
> hardware, especially in situations where Windows is (also) installed on a
> machine. Running chain.c32 with hd0 as parameter just crashes the machine
> for some reason.
>
> My question is the following: will the localboot bug get fixed at some
point
> in the near future, or isn't anyone interested in it? And if the
latter,
> what could be causing our problems and how could we fix or circumvent them?
>

I don't know of "the" localboot bug.  There is "the"
chainloading bug
(gPXELINUX can't load another NBP), but that doesn't affect localboot.
There were problems with localboot a long time ago, but they should have
long since been resolved.

What version are you running?

	-hpa

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